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1 MICHAEL L. THOMAS Center for the Study of Ancient Italy Department of Art & Art History The University of Texas at Austin 2301 San Jacinto, Stop D1300 Austin, TX (214) EDUCATION Ph.D. (Classical Art and Archaeology December 2001 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Dissertation: Constructing Dynastic Legitimacy: Imperial Building Programs in the Forum Romanum from Augustus to Diocletian M.A. (Art History) August 1994, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. B.A. (Art History) December 1989, Duke University, Durham, NC TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Classical Archaeology, Roman Villas, Ancient Pompeii and the Bay of Naples, Topography of Ancient Rome, the Ancient City, Archaeology of Ancient Etruria, Historical Preservation, Digital Humanities. Production and Trade of Wine in the Roman World, Roman Numismatics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011-Present. Director, Center for the Study of Ancient Italy, University of Texas at Austin 2006-Present. Senior Research Associate. Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Classics, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Spring Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Dallas, TX Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology. Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Spring Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Assistant Instructor (Instructor of Record). Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin Teaching Assistant. Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. FIELD EXPERIENCE Present. Co-Director, The Oplontis Project, Torre Annunziata, Italy Present. Co-Director, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and Poggio Colla Field School, Vicchio, Italy Field Director, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, Vicchio, Italy Trench Supervisor, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, Vicchio, Italy Volunteer, La Piana, Spannocchia, Italy Assistant Trench Supervisor, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, Vicchio, Italy.

2 EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE 2014-Present. Editor-In-Chief, Etruscan Studies 2014 Associate Editor, Etruscan Studies 2013 Book Review Editor, Etruscan Studies COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Italian Archaeology, Etruscan Archaeology, Pompeii: City and Art (also taught as Pompeii Life and Art and as the Art and Architecture of Ancient Pompeii), Athens and Rome: Perspectives on the Ancient City (seminar) The Public Spaces of Imperial Rome; Introduction to Roman Archaeology; The Forum and the Roman City (as graduate seminar and lecture); Daily Life in a Roman city, Introduction to Visual Arts GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, Project title: The Oplontis Project. Excavation, study, and digital publication of Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Italy, 50 BCE-CE 79. $355,000 (RZ ). Co-director with John Clarke (PI) Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tufts University, Medford, MA M. K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin The American Numismatic Society s Fellowship in Roman Studies, and the University Tuition Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Marshall F. Wells Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, and the Charles Edwards Endowed Scholarship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin Dallas Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin Kress Fellowship in Field Archaeology, and the Charles Edwards Endowed Scholarship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin M. K. Hage Endowed Fellowship Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin Etruscan Foundation Summer Research Scholarship. PUBLICATIONS In Progress Book (as editor) The Oplontis Project: A Digital and Print Monograph of Villa A (Poppaea) at Torre Annunziata, Italy, in Four Volumes. Co-editor with J. R. Clarke, and N. Muntasser. Signed Contract with Ebook Humanities Series (ALCS) Preliminary Notes on Two Seasons of Research at Oplontis B ( ) with I. Van der Graaff, N.K. Muntasser, J. R. Clarke, P. Wilkinson- Swale and Thames, and J. L. Muslin. FOLD&R, Framing views in Villa A : from the late Republic to the age of Nero, in Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero : the villas of Oplontis near Pompeii, ed. By E. Gazda and J. Clarke. 2

3 Oplontis B and the wine industry in the Vesuvian area, in Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero : the villas of Oplontis near Pompeii, ed. By E. Gazda and J. Clarke Oplontis B: A Center for the Export and Distribution of Vesuvian Wine. Journal of Roman Archaeology 28, The Oplontis Project : A Report of Excavations at Oplontis B, Co-Authored (as 1 st author) with I. van der Graaff and P. Wilkinson. FOLD&R ( /FOLDER-it pdf) 2012 Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation. Book. Co-editor with G. Meyers. University of Texas Press. One Hundred Victoriati from the Sanctuary at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello): Ritual Contexts and Roman Expansion Etruscan Studies 15(1) Water features, the atrium, and the coastal setting of Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Co-authored (as 1st author) with John Clarke. Journal of Roman Archaeology 24, Evidence of Demolition and Remodeling at Villa A at Oplontis (Villa of Poppaea) after A.D. 45. Journal of Roman Archaeology 22 (2009): Co-authored (as 1st author) with J. R. Clarke The Oplontis Project : New Evidence for the Building History and Decorative Programs at Villa A, Torre Annunziata. In Nuove recerche archeologiche nell area vesuviana (scavi ). Atti del Convegno Internazionale organizzato dalla Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, Roma 1-3 febbraio 2007, edited by Maria Paolo Guidobaldi. Co-authored (as 2nd author) with J. R. Clarke The Oplontis Project : New Observations on Construction History at Villa A, Torre Annunziata Journal of Roman Archeology 20, Co-authored (as 1st author) with J. R. Clarke Excavations at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello): Journal of Roman Archaeology 18, Co-authored (as 2nd author) with P. Gregory Warden, Ann Steiner, and Gretchen Meyers (Re)locating Domitian s Horse of Glory: The Equus Domitiani and Flavian Urban Deisgn. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 49, (2003) Excavations at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello): A Report of the Seasons, Etruscan Studies 8 (2001) Review of J. Rasmus Brandt and Lars Karlsson, eds. From Huts to Houses: Transformations of Ancient Societies (Stockholm, 2001). Etruscan Studies 8 (2001) An Imitation Unsealed Semis from Northern Etruria, American Journal of Numismatics 12, The 1999 Season at Poggo Colla (Vicchio di Mugello). Etruscan Studies 7, Co-authored (as 2nd author) with P. Gregory Warden. 3

4 1999 Excavations at Poggio Colla: The 1998 Season. Etruscan Studies 6, Co-authored (as 2nd author) with P. Gregory Warden. Excavations at the Etruscan Settlement of Poggio Colla: The Seasons, Journal of Roman Archaeology 12, Co-authored (as 2nd author) with P. Gregory Warden and Jess Galloway. CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS/INVITED LECTURES/SYMPOSIA 2017 Eat, Drink, and Be Impressed: Monumentality, Leisure, and the Evolution of Architectural Design at Oplontis Villa A. AIA Annual Meeting. Gold Medal Session in Honor of John Clarke, January 6 th Contexts of Ritual and Cult: The Temple, the Vicchio Stele and New Evidence from the Sanctuary at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello. UT Austin. October 14, A Tale of Two Villas : Luxury, Wine, and Water and the Last Years of Oplontis, Genius Loci Symposium, Museum of the Rockies, MSA, Bozeman Montana. September 30, 2016 and at Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, May 6, "New Evidence for the Early Phases of the Temple at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello, AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 7, 2014 A Tale of Two Villas: New Evidence for the Last Years at Oplontis, circa 50 To 79 CE AIA Dallas Lecture, SMU, Dallas TX, September 25, "From Vineyard to Amphora: Oplontis B and the Wine Trade on the Bay of Naples". Ninth Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium in Ancient Art. University of Kansas, March 25, A Wine Distribution Center on the Bay Naples? New Evidence from Villa B at Torre Annunziata. AIA Annual Meetings, Seattle, WA. January 5, Approaches to Ancient Roman Luxury Villas: Oplontis and Beyond. Symposium Co-Organized with J. Clarke and N. Muntasser. April 1st and 2nd, 2011, Austin TX. Framing the Experience of the Roman Luxury Villa: Enfilades and privileged views in the Fourth- Style architecture at Oplontis Villa A (Villa di Poppaea). April 2, 2011, Austin TX. The Oplontis Project: New Evidence for the History and Setting of Villa A (Villa of Poppaea) at Torre Annunziata, with John Clarke. AIA Annual Meetings, San Antonio, TX. January 7, "Oplontis Villa A (The Villa "of Poppaea" at Torre Annunziata): Between Modern Perception and Ancient Reality," with J. Clarke at the Roman Archeology Conference (RAC), Oxford (UK), March 28,

5 The Oplontis Project : New Collaborations, New Discoveries. AIA Austin Society, University of Texas, Austin, TX. January 21, Co- authored (as 2nd author) with John Clarke. The Oplontis Project : Evidence of Demolition and Remodeling at Villa A after 45 CE, with John Clarke. AIA Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11, The Ideology and Innovation of Monumental Architecture in Etruria and Early Rome: A Colloquium in Honor of Ingrid Edlund-Berry. AIA Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11, Colloquium co-organized with Gretchen Meyers Hidden or Given? A Hoard of Roman victoriati and the Context of Romanization in Northern Etruria., University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 7, The Urban Iconography of Flavian Victory: Domitian s Restoration of the Triumphal Processional Route. CAA Annual Meeting, New York, NY. February 14, The Oplontis Project: Discoveries and New Work, , with John Clarke. Nuove ricerche acheologiche nell area vesuviana (scavi ) Convegno Internazionale organizzato dalla Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei. Rome, Italy. February 3, The Oplontis Project : New Observations on Construction History and Decorative Programs at Villa A, Torre Annunziata. AIA Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA. January 5, Coauthored (as 1st author) with John Clarke. Etruscan Cult and Ritual Destruction: New Evidence from Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello), with Ann Steiner, Gretchen Meyers, and P. Gregory Warden AIA Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA. January 5, At Home with the Past: Boston's Brandegee Collection of Roman Sculpture. April 7, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Symposium co-organized with Anthony Tuck The Oplontis Project: Excavating Poppaea's Luxury Villa, with John Clarke. AIA Austin Society, University of Texas, Austin, TX. October 19, 2005 Culto e continuità culturale a Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello), with Greg Warden. Secondo Seminario Internazionale di Studi Città di Montefiascone. Montefiacsone, Italy. May 28, The Oplontis Project: Mapping the Life of an Ancient Roman Villa. AIA Dallas/Fort Worth Society. Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, February 24, Ten Years in Northern Etruria: Excavations at the Etruscan Site of Poggio Colla. Tufts University, November 2, and at Franklin and Marshall, Lancaster PA, November 4, The Hellenistic Habitation and Workshop at Podere Funghi (Poggio Colla), with P. Gregory Warden. AIA Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 6, Sanctuary and Settlement: Archaeological Work at Poggio Colla (Vicchio di Mugello), with P. Gregory Warden. Etruscans Now Conference at the British Museum, London, December 11, Relocating Domitian s Horse of Glory: The Flavian Forum Romanum and the Equus Domitiani, AIA Annual Meetings, San Diego, January 5, also at UT Austin, April 24, 2002, and Florida State University, January 24,

6 Recent Excavations at Poggio Colla, Archaeological Workshop on Recent Excavations in Tuscany: Poggio Civitate and Poggio Colla, Lugano, Switzerland. August 12, The Technology of Daily Life in an Hellenistic Etruscan Settlement: New Evidence from Poggio Colla AIA Annual Meetings, Dallas December 30, Aspects of Urbanism in the Hellenistic Mugello Annual Meeting of the Etruscan Foundation, Spannocchia, Italy, July 28, Poggio Colla Excavations 1997/98, with P. Gregory Warden and Karen Vellucci. AIA Annual Meetings, Washington D. C., December 29, Voluptatis Causa: The East Wing and Swimming Pool Area of the Villa at Oplontis. MAHS Annual Meetings, Dallas, March 21, A Forum Diocletiani?: Diocletian s Programmatic Restoration of the Forum Romanum. AIA Annual Meetings, New York, December 29. LANGUAGES Italian (read and speak fluently, passed proficiency exam) French (read, passed proficiency exam) German (read, passed proficiency exam) Latin (read) Spanish (read) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/BOARDS/COMMITTEES Scientific Committee, Fasti Online (2012-Present) The Etruscan Foundation (Board of Directors, 2012-Present) Meadows Museum of Art, SMU (Advisory Council, Education Committee, 2009-Present) Archaeological Institute of America (Gala Committee, ) College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians THESIS COMMITTEE/READER/ADVISOR Ph.D. Thesis Committee at UT Austin (Walls of Pompeii) Primary Advisor on two MA theses at Tufts University (Roman lararia, Villa Gardens) Reader on two MA Theses at SMU (Etruscan Tombs, Fascist Architecture in Rome) 6